Focault Pendulum - Model

Purpose

Equipment

Pendulum suspended from rotating table.

Suggestions

This can also be done more slowly in the lecture halls using the rotating stage as the rotating reference frame.

Images

Description

The circular base can be rotated while the pendulum oscillates in a fixed plane in the frame of reference of the laboratory, thus showing the apparent rotation of the plane of the pendulum when viewed in the frame of reference of its base.